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Founders

The OpenDRIVE^®initiative was started in 2005 by:

   and    Daimler Driving Simulator, Stuttgart

With the publication of the initiative in 2006, other companies joined in so that OpenDRIVE^® is now being maintained by an international board.

Core Team

The OpenDRIVE^® standard is reviewed and released by a core team of driving simulation experts. The team members as of January 28, 2010 are (alphabetical order by company):

• Martin Strobl / BMW Forschung und Technik GmbH, Germany
• Hans Grezlikowski / Daimler AG, Germany
• Andreas Richter / Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V., Germany
• Dr. Günther Nirschl / Fraunhofer-Institut IVI, Germany
• Ekkehard Klärner / Krauss-Maffei Wegmann GmbH & Co. KG, Germany
• Dr. Bernhard Bock / Rheinmetall Defence Electronics GmbH, Germany
• Ingmar Stel / TNO, Netherlands
• Marius Dupuis / VIRES Simulationstechnologie GmbH, Germany
• Mats Lidström / VTI, Sweden